Whether for yourself, a client, or any other business, an SEO data analytic report can be essential if you're going to enjoy some level of success this year. Of course, the journey starts with a need to get the business higher up the rankings but it continues with passion and some level of knowledge.
Over time, you might introduce some new SEO techniques and change what the business is doing in terms of content.
However, changes are no good if you're not going to assess whether they actually work. In fact, SEO, in general, is useless if you aren't willing to produce reports using the analytics provided.
Once again, this could be for your clients, bosses, or just yourself. Today, we're going to discover four essential steps for getting these reports right.
SEO Data Analytic Report – First and foremost, we should explain the use of this report and what it means for your business. As we've already discovered, SEO reports are a great way to see whether changes have had an effect but they're also ideal for assessing the overall SEO performance of a website. How close is the business to competitors? What ranking does the website have on certain keywords?
In addition to this, they're a useful tool for deciding which areas need the most attention in the coming period.
Do you need to focus on long-tail keywords?
Is the landing page not performing as it once was?
As we know, everything always seems to be changing in the SEO world so these reports provide frequent updates to stay on top of the competition and build a website for sustainable success rather than 'trending' success (which is likely to end at any moment!).
Despite popular belief, these types of reports don't need to be long, detailed documents. Instead, they just need to provide the most important details and this is what we're going to focus on today with four easy-to-follow steps. Nowadays, time is critical in business, so a short and sweet report will always be preferred to something that takes hours to read.
Step #1: Preparation – Every year, we see companies make the same mistakes time and time again; they follow a presentation seen on the internet or they randomly display important metrics on a sheet of paper.
In truth, preparation is often the most important step because it stops you wasting time on metrics in which there's no interest. For the purpose of this guide today, we're going to stick with the idea of producing reports for your manager at work and for your own business.
This being said, the same rules will apply if you're producing the reports for clients too.
Before anything else, you need to prepare and this means considering your business and the aims you have moving forward. Whenever you optimize your website, you must have certain targets in mind so what are these targets? Within an SEO report, the idea is to show the changes within the time since the last report so what are these changes?
Furthermore, you'll also benefit from keeping an eye on certain metrics after deciding to boost your website with SEO. Rather than your boss asking for a report and then scrambling around for data, you can note all the most important metrics on day one before then checking in every so often (or utilize software to do it for you; more on this in a moment!).
This way, you can create easy-to-view graphs of how they've changed and this promotes the simplicity of the report.
According to a recent report, colored visuals are a winner and 65% of people are more likely to read them. When you need to engage your reader, and attract them to the information presented, visuals will be a tool of which you should take advantage and only historical data will allow this.
Finally, during the preparation phase, we recommend talking to the person who's going to be reading the report.
What do they know about SEO?
Do they have any experience in the topic at all?
With many, they make the mistake of assuming everybody knows the basics which means their reports are far too advanced and of no benefit to the reader. Once you know your audience, building the report becomes that little bit easier.
Step #2: Take Advantage of Technology – Nowadays, we see far too many people using technology in the wrong way and it ends up wasting their own time more than anyone else's. Rather than using a program like Google Analytics and writing down metrics yourself every week to see how they've changed, take advantage of the many APIs (application programming interface).
If you're using an analytics program such as Google Analytics, you'll have access to a free API and this'll allow you to extract the information to use in a report. When you start to combine multiple APIs, you get full access to large amounts of data and it can be useful to have these different perspectives when assessing the progress of the business.
If you're on the fence about using APIs for such applications, you should know the biggest advantage is to create in-house applications that extract data at regular intervals. Whether this information goes into a document for review or perhaps to an internal network, this is entirely up to you. If you learn how such tools work, you'll see a great benefit in no time because you're suddenly allowed access to the most important data points.
Step #3: Combine Different Data – If we turn to the presentation itself, the report should look clean and it needs to include all of the basic pieces of information. For some, they make the mistake of only including one type of data (ranking, percentage growth, etc.) rather than offering it all. For us, the best SEO reports boast the whole range of data options because this allows the reader to see where progress has been made and what this means as a result.
Recently, we saw an SEO report with just monthly growth which is fantastic. However, it doesn't mean anything if it isn't then applied in some way.
For example, what does this growth mean for the rankings? Since SEO is, quite literally, optimizing a website for search engines, what has the impact been on search engine rankings?
Therefore, you'll need a blend of different statistics including monthly growth, yearly growth, rank updates, and overall keyword growth. With this last option, you can assess the volume, type, and caliber of the keywords you're using. While the previous statistics show progress, this one shows how you're using keywords to achieve the progress. If you've been working on SEO for some time, you can also produce a list of keywords you've ranked for and this shows your value.
In addition to this, a great way to show off what you've been doing is to assess the links you've received from top websites as a result of the improved content. In the report, you can suggest why this is good and how impactful these links have been. As you know, SEO is all about building a positive spiral of events where, once you start getting one or two things right, it soon starts to snowball and the progression comes naturally.
To finish, you need to consider the needs of the reader and what they're looking for from your service. With this in mind, they might want to see social media growth, mobile traffic growth, number of indexed pages, number of optimized pages, conversion rate, traffic by location, and more.
Although we outlined this earlier, customizing the report for the reader is essential. Why include information on conversion rate if they don't have anything to sell or any mailing list to promote? With businesses that are purely trying to promote information and awareness, bounce rate and an improvement in the time spent on the website are the most important factors. Once you know exactly what the business offers and how they operate, this will be easier (of course, it's simple for business owners producing their own reports).
Step #4: Always Relate to Goals – Finally, everything you mention in your SEO report needs to have a meaning. If there's a metric on the report that isn't contributing anything or doesn't apply to the business in question, get rid of it because it's not helping. With every single statistic you've included in the report, what does this mean for their goals? Are they getting closer? As we said earlier, not everybody is knowledgeable when it comes to SEO so they won't know whether all the statistics you're providing are average, good, very good, or superb.
Ultimately, we always suggest having goals listed on the report and then some brief information towards these goals. If you're working for a client and they aren't seeing the benefit of hiring you, it won't be long before you're out the door and they give up on the whole idea. To show your value and really show why they're paying you, any report you provide needs to link back to their goals because this shows how they're progressing every time.
With anything a business does, they need to see a return on investment. The longer you work without showing progress, the more of a risk you become to the business. The minute you start showing a return, your service starts to pay for itself through the increased traffic to the website, increased conversation rate, and the increase in completed sales.
Summary – If you follow these four steps, you shouldn't have an issue keeping the reader happy (as long as you're doing the work and actually making progress when it comes to SEO). As we've stated throughout, the most important factor will always be the recipient. Over the months, as you produce more and more reports, you'll get an idea of what they look for and this allows you to adjust your focus.
Remember, the reader is busy and they don't have much time so short and sweet reports are always preferred; also, you should always finish with actionable items. After linking back to your goals and showing the advancement, you then need to explain steps the business can take to keep improving. As before, this shows your value and it shows you can come up with ideas and solutions rather than just following their word and this is important. The more they trust you, the more control you'll have over the process and you can keep helping the company to move forward!


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DURING THE LAST WEEKEND OF MARCH, BUSES WILL REPLACE METRO LINE M4 DUE TO TESTS REQUIRED FOR THE FINAL COMPLETION CERTIFICATE
On Saturday and Sunday 28 and 29 March 2015, Metro Line M4 will be out of service due to tests conducted by the transport authority, buses will replace M4 trains along the entire line, and the nos. 47 and 49 day trams will run twice as frequently as usual. Started in the middle of March along Metro Line M4, the special testing period with no train attendant intervention has come to its second stage.
The tests are made up of three periods built on one another; the first stage had trains run without any attendant intervention for ten days in the non-service areas of the terminal stations; the second stage during the weekend on 28 and 29 March will have trains running along the full line with no train attendant on. The special tests are required by the final completion certificate: the line has to prove that it is capable of safe and reliable service in actual circumstances without human intervention.
It should be noted, however, that all the passengerless commissioning test runs of the first automatic train-control metro line of Budapest conducted by the contractor, the employer and the transport authority were carried out without drivers in fully automatic mode, as are the on-going tests in traffic operation. The trains have temporary driver cabins though; but the only duty of attendants seated in them is to supervise the movement of the trains and intervene in case a problem arises. The movement and operation of the trains are fully provided by the central automatic train control system.
Following the issue of the final completion certificate, the driver cabins will be removed, and instead of the on-board train attendants, the trains will be supervised by the central traffic controller and the station dispatchers, and will be running at the highest level of automation. The tests commencing in mid-March with the participation of the experts of the National Transport Authority were initiated by the employer and the contractor in order to fulfil the requirements prescribed by the temporary completion certificate, the aim of which is to prove – after the gradual omission of the train-attendant intervention – that what was operational on the designer table and the technical documentation is operational in actual life circumstances. In the course of the special tests, experts including Siemens staff continually examine the operation of the system in various – often pre-modelled – situations.
The objective of the test in traffic operation, which began at the end of March 2014, was to filter out and remedy minor faults during operation. The number of these continually decreased, and, as a result of the reliable operation of the system, no safety-critical problems occurred in almost a year. Insofar as the system, having passed the certification procedure conducted by notable home and international firms and performing in accordance with the strictest safety level during the two stages of the testing, an expectedly two-week period of testing in traffic operation with attendants not allowed to intervene in case of a problem after a certain period of time and under the supervision of dispatchers is planned to commence in the middle of April. Detailed information on this stage will be duly provided.
Traffic along Metro Line M4 on 28 and 29 March
Metro Line M4 will provide service for the whole day on both Saturday and Sunday 28 and 29 March 2015; therefore, replacement buses marked M4 will be running between the M4 stations of Kelenföld vasútállomás (Kelenföld Railway Station) and Keleti pályaudvar (Keleti Railway Station). The route of replacement buses will not near the M4 stations of Újbuda-központ, Fővám tér and Kálvin tér; these stations will be approachable by the nos. 47 and 49 trams, and, due to their major role in the M4 replacement, their frequency will be twice the usual: trams will follow one another every 3-4 minutes along their shared sections. The M4 replacement buses will provide transfer opportunities to Metro Line M2, apart from Keleti pályaudvar (Keleti Railway Station), at the metro stations at Blaha Lujza tér and Astoria, and to Metro Line M3 at Ferenciek tere instead of Kálvin tér. For passengers travelling between Budapest and Budaörs, the no. 240E bus will run every 10 instead of 15 minutes, with transfer possibilities to both the M4 replacement buses and the nos. 47 and 49 trams. Parallel, the no. 40 bus will run less frequently, every 15 instead of 10 minutes over the weekend. In the section between the Budaörs housing estate and the Gazdagréti út, the running frequency of the two buses will not change.
The route of the M4 replacement buses
The replacement buses marked M4 running from the M4 metro station Kelenföld vasútállomás (Railway Station – Etele tér side) to the M2 and M4 stations Keleti pályaudvar (Keleti Railway Station) will go along the route: Etele út, Tétényi út, Bartók Béla út, Szent Gellért tér, Szent Gellért rakpart, Erzsébet híd, Szabad sajtó út, Ferenciek tere, Kossuth Lajos utca, Rákóczi út, Baross tér, and Thököly út, with the following stops:
• Kelenföld vasútállomás (Kelenföld Railway Station): at the stop of the no. 907 bus (M4 station);
• Bikás park: at the stop of the nos. 7, 107, 114, 153, 153A, 154, 213, and 214 buses (M4 station);
• Kosztolányi Dezső tér: at the stop of the nos. 7, 107, 188E, 240E, and 272 buses;
• Móricz Zsigmond körtér: at the stop of the nos. 7, 107, 188E, 240E, and 272 buses (M4 station);
• Szent Gellért tér: at the stop of the nos. 7 and 107 buses (M4 station);
• Ferenciek tere: at the stop of the nos. 5, 7, 8, 107, 110, 112, 133, 178, 233, and 239 buses (M3 station);
• Astoria: at the stop of the nos. 5, 7, 8, 107, 110, 112, 133, 178, 233, and 239 buses (M2 station);
• Blaha Lujza tér: at the stop of the nos. 5, 7, 7E, 8, 107, 110, 112, 133, 178, 233, and 239 buses (M2 station);
• Huszár utca: at the stop of the nos. 5, 7, 8, 110, 112, 178, and 239 buses;
• Keleti pályaudvar (Keleti Railway Station): at the stop of the nos. 5, 7, 7E, 8, 20, 20E, 30, 30A, 107, 110, 112, 133, 178, 230, 233, and 239 buses (M2 and M4 stations).
The replacement buses marked M4 running from the M2 and M4 metro stations at Keleti pályaudvar (Keleti Railway Station) to Kelenföld Railway Station (Etele tér side) will go along the route: Thököly út, Baross tér, Rákóczi út, Kossuth Lajos utca, Ferenciek tere, Szabad sajtó út, Erzsébet híd, Szent Gellért rakpart, Szent Gellért tér, Bartók Béla út, Tétényi út, Etele út, with the following stops:
• Keleti pályaudvar (Keleti Railway Station): at the stop of the nos. 5, 7, 7E, 8, 20E, 30, 30A, 107, 110, 112, 133, 178, 230, 233, and 239 buses (M2 and M4 stations);
• Astoria: at the nos. 5, 7, 8, 107, 110, 112, 133, 178, 233, and 239 bus stop (M2 station);
• Móricz Zsigmond körtér: at the stop of the nos. 7 and 107 buses (M4 station);
• Kosztolányi Dezső tér: at the stop of the nos. 7, 107, 153, 153A, and 154 buses;
• Kelenföld vasútállomás (Kelenföld Railway Station): bus terminal (M4 station).
Reaching M4 stations
On 28 and 29 March, the M4 stations can be reached via the following:
• Keleti pályaudvar (Keleti Railway Station): M4 replacement buses.
• II. János Pál pápa tér:
o M4 replacement buses to Blaha Lujza tér (M2 station), and from there by the nos. 28, 37 or 37A trams;
o M4 replacement buses to Huszár utca, and from there a 500-metre, 7-8-minute walk along Rákóczi út and Kenyérmező utca.
• Rákóczi tér: M4 replacement buses to Blaha Lujza tér (M2 station), and from there by the nos. 4 or 6 trams.
• Kálvin tér: by the nos. 47 and 49 trams.
• Fővám tér: by the nos. 47 and 49 trams.
• Szent Gellért tér: Kálvin tér: M4 replacement buses, and the nos. 47 and 49 trams.
• Móricz Zsigmond körtér: M4 replacement buses, and the nos. 47 and 49 trams.
• Újbuda-központ: the no. 47 tram.
• Bikás park : M4 replacement buses.
• Kelenföld vasútállomás (Kelenföld Railway Station): M4 replacement buses, and the no. 49 tram.
No ticket validations will be needed for transfers made necessary by the replacement service
Transfers made necessary by the replacement of M4 services are not deemed to be trip breaks.
As the route of M4 replacement buses will not near all stations served by Metro Line M4 and these stations being reachable via transfer to other services, no new tickets need to be validated
• for those transferring from an M4 replacement bus to the nos. 47 and 49 trams at Astoria (M2 station), Szent Gellért tér (M4 station), Móricz Zsigmond körtér (M4 station) and going on to Kálvin tér (M3 and M4 stations) or Fővám tér (M4 station);
• for those transferring to the no. 47 tram at Szent Gellért tér (M4 station) or Móricz Zsigmond körtér (M4 station) and going on to Újbuda-központ (M4 station);
• for those transferring to the the nos. 4 or 6 trams at Blaha Lujza tér (M2 station) and going on to Rákóczi tér (M4 station); and
• for those transferring to the nos. 28, 37 and 37A trams at Blaha Lujza tér (M2 station) and going on to II. János Pál pápa tér.
Further changes in surface services on March 28 and 29
At Keleti pályaudvar (Keleti Railway Station), the nos. 8 and 178 buses will start not from their usual place but from the no. 79 trolley bus stop in Thököly út before the junction of Bethlen Gábor utca.
At Kelenföld vasútállomás (Kelenföld Railway Station), the no. 103 bus will start not from its usual place, but from the adjacent, inner platform, the starting point of the train replacement buses. The train replacement buses will start out form the no. 154 bus stop facing János Neumann utca at Kelenföld vasútállomás (Kelenföld Railway Station).
In order to enable transfers, the services connecting to the last M4 trains will modify as follows:
• The no. 8 bus: an additional bus will start at 00:08 between Kelenföld vasútállomás (Kelenföld Railway Station) and Gazdagréti tér;
• the no. 40 bus: instead of the usual departure at 23:58, the bus will start at 00.08 on both these days at Kelenföld vasútállomás (Kelenföld Railway Station);
• The no. 240E bus: an additional bus will start at 23:54 from Móricz Zsigmond körtér;
• The no. 250 bus: the bus starting out at 23:58 according to schedule from Kelenföld vasútállomás (Kelenföld Railway Station) will leave 10 minutes later, at 00.08;
• The no. 272 bus: instead of 23:53, the last bus will leave at 23:55.
We request the understanding and patience of the public for the inconvenience caused by the metro replacement.
Budapest Transport Centre (BKK)
BKV Zrt. / BKV Zrt. DBR Metro Project Directorate
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A nice cup of coffee is something that tastes good. But coffee tastes even better if you know how it's been made (sustainably). And that goes for all our own coffee brands as well, not just for more expensive niche products. In 2015, we started working towards '100 % certified coffee', when just 1.6 % of our house brand coffees carried a sustainability label. A mere three years later, we're close to achieving our goal; with more than 99 % certified coffee. Something to be celebrated! And that's not all there is to know about our coffee.
Lots of family businesses in the South have the potential to become high-quality, sustainable operations. But a lack of money or knowledge makes it difficult for them to access modern markets on their own. In cases like these, we look at whether a chain project is a potential solution. This is where we work with the farmers to build an efficient and sustainable production chain that stretches from their field to the shop, where each link in the chain adds value. We are running two chain projects involving coffee: a project in Burundi and one in North Kivu (Congo).


We are excited to announce that APS TV will be returning once again to the APS March Meeting 2019 from March 4 - 8 in Boston, Massachusetts. APS TV brings a different element to the meeting by using videos to highlight physics research from universities, industry, and major labs.
During the APS March Meeting, you can watch APS TV on screens around the venue, in selected local hotels on dedicated TV channels, and on YouTube.
In the weeks prior to the APS March Meeting, WebsEdge will reach out to organizations to discuss the opportunity of producing a film about their work for the APS TV program. Due to timing and the popularity of APS TV, the number of organizations that can be featured during the meeting is limited.
With questions or to learn more, please contact Sally Nelson at sally@websedge.com.


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Netherlands Violated Child's Right to Nationality: UN Committee
December 29, 2020 December 29, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Asylum, children, China, citizenship, immigration, Netherlands, trafficking
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Chilean Michelle Bachelet speaks during the opening of the 41st session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, last year. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP)
GENEVA (AFP) — The Netherlands violated a child's rights by failing to acknowledge that he was stateless and eligible for international protection, a U.N. committee found Tuesday, urging the country to change its legislation.
In its first ever decision on the right of children to acquire nationality, the U.N. Human Rights Committee determined that by registering the child as "nationality unknown," the Dutch authorities had violated his right to international protection and also to seek a nationality.
The case involves a boy named Denny, born in the Dutch city of Utrecht in 2010 to a Chinese mother who was trafficked to the Netherlands in 2004 at the age of 15 and forced into prostitution.
She escaped four years later, but since she herself had been abandoned at birth, she was not recorded in the civil registry in China and has been unable to obtain Chinese citizenship for herself, and unable to provide proof of Denny's nationality.
She was also unable to provide proof that her son was without a nationality, as required by Dutch law to be registered as stateless and apply for international protection. So he was registered as "nationality unknown."
With no hope of getting further support from the Dutch authorities, Denny and his mother filed a petition to the U.N. Committee in 2016.
They are currently living in a center for failed asylum seekers with young children, under a permanent threat of deportation, the committee said in a statement.
"States have the responsibility to ensure that stateless children under their jurisdiction who have no possibility to acquire any other nationality are not left without legal protection," committee member Shuichi Furuya said in the statement.
"The right to nationality ensures concrete protection for individuals, in particular children."
The committee pointed to official Dutch statistics showing that as of September 2016, 13,169 children under 10 were registered in the country as having "unknown nationality" — many of them born in the Netherlands.
The committee called on the Netherlands to review its decision of Denny's application to be registered as stateless, and his application to be recognised as a Dutch citizen.
It also called on the country to provide Denny with compensation, and to review its legislation on the matter, and asked for details on what measures had been taken within 180 days.
The team of 18 independent experts monitors whether countries adhere to their human rights commitments, but does not have enforcement powers.
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Traditional shorthand is remarkably fast, allowing speeds over 200 words per minute. However, it is very time consuming to learn, and is designed for speech recording, not typing. The PocketPC & Palm pen alphabets are simplified longhand, not shorthand, and are no faster than handwriting.
AlphaTap's Lightning feature is a simple, self-teaching shorthand mechanism that is based on the most common words and word fragments in English. Some 250 words account for over 50% of English usage. These words are mapped onto the AlphaTap layout so that you can type them with just one or two pen strokes. To become productive, you only need to learn the subset of these words which you commonly use.
Learning this vocabulary of pen strokes is easy. Your brain readily maps the gestures of short pen paths to words and syllables. The first few times you type a word, you trace over it slowly, pausing on each key, as AlphaTap highlights the next letters for vocabulary words from the key you are on. Each word has a specific path on the layout which you can stroke rapidly once you know the path. The practice of normal use is enough to cement the words in your memory after a short time. AlphaTap includes a practice game to walk you through the vocabulary and score your performance.
Many words outside the built-in vocabulary can also be typed in a few strokes by using fragments of the built-in words. See the Lightning phrase list for examples written with Lightning shorthand. The Lightning vocabulary is user-extensible. See the User Guide for more on Lightning features.


Every other Tuesday afternoon due to timetabling and contracted hours, I finish work early. Yesterday was the last time this was going to happen, with my timetable changing in September, so rather than spend it as I usually do with catching up on the washing or some other mundane but necessary task, I decided to treat myself.
I had one thing in my mind. I had been thinking about this for a few days, to the point where I was slightly obsessing about it. I had to have some. It didn't matter about the cost, I needed some. I am usually a sensible, logical person, who doesn't fritter away money on frivolities, but I needed my fix. Yes, my name is Karen and I love macarons.
They are so beautiful to look at, either beautiful pastel shades or bright colours which catch your eye. In fact it is the fact that they are so pretty that stops me shoving them straight into my mouth. I have to pause and savour the look of them for a moment, then bite….. A delicate crunch through the surface into a cloudy sweet, fluffy middle which melts in your mouth. I chose pistachio, rose water and lavender macarons. The clear box holding these three beautiful treats sat on the passenger seat whilst I carefully drive home. It was like I had a little box of green, pink and purple treasures next to me. With any other cake or pastry they would have been scoffed on the journey, but that just wouldn't have been right for these.
Once I was sat comfortably on the sofa with a coffee and some indulgent TV (Devious Maids – love it) I could enjoy them. They looked and tasted so wonderful I felt like a very special person to be able to be enjoying these.
So there you go Rich and girls. I spent £1 each which I ate all by myself rather than sorting out your clean clothes or vacuuming. And you know what? I don't feel guilty about that at all. For a few minutes I felt like royalty and it was good to have bit of escapism from all things mommy. Normal service has now been resumed. Until the next time I catch sight of something colourful out of the corner of my eye and hear a whisper of "eat me"…….


Entrepreneurs and corporate leaders from across the Bay Area will gather to hear from innovators and luminaries in business to discuss entrepreneurship and ways to help more women-owned businesses succeed.
Vaneese Johnson, The Boldness Coach™, certified Executive Coach, Global Speaker, and Brand Strategist will moderate a panel discussion entitled, "Risk Taking: Small Steps vs. Giant Leaps" at this year's Watermark Entrepreneur Conference Tuesday, October 17, 2017, in Mountain View, CA. Watermark is the Bay Area's largest membership organization dedicated to increasing the number of women in leadership positions.
The Watermark Entrepreneur Conference draws women (and some men) who are interested in starting a business or are already running their own business and features several prominent investors from Silicon Valley and beyond. "I'm excited to moderate this discussion and to ignite a fire in women looking to start or grow their businesses," Vaneese Johnson explained.
Through her executive coaching and international speaking engagements, Vaneese Johnson empowers women entrepreneurs to accentuate their professional presence with authenticity and authority using her proprietary success fundamentals of Branding Out Loud Daily (BOLD), Branding their Innovated Gifts (BIG) and being Branded and Distinctive (BAD). Ms. Johnson helps savvy women entrepreneurs leverage their brand, industry trends, and cutting-edge strategies to achieve personal and professional success.
Vaneese Johnson selected to be a panelist at the Small Business Leadership Summit in Washington D.C. is one of more than 150 small business leaders from across the country invited to discuss the most pressing issues facing small businesses; opportunity to talk with elected officials and members of the Obama Administration about policies to bolster small business.


Intelligent building (IB) technologies have widespread applications in the building design and development. In this regard, it is necessary to develop intelligent building assessment models in order to satisfy the clients, professionals, and occupants' growing demands. To this end, this paper proposes an integrated analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and preference degree approach (PDA) under the fuzzy environment for the purpose of intelligent building assessment. Fuzzy AHP is employed to determine the local weights of performance criteria and the final weights of the intelligent building alternatives. Since, the final weights of intelligent buildings (IBs) are in the form of fuzzy numbers, fuzzy PDA is utilized to prioritize the intelligent buildings. Finally, fuzzy AHP-fuzzy PDA is proposed to assess the performance of five intelligent building alternatives in Isfahan, Iran.
Keywords: intelligent building assessment, fuzzy decision making, fuzzy AHP, fuzzy PDA.


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4 Stories about 4 musicians who married their cousins
By David K. Israel
We've written before about famous folk who married their cousins. But it's such a great subject, and there are more stories to tell, so we thought we'd dive back in with another post today, and keep the focus on famous musicians.
1. Igor Stravinsky The composer of huge ballets like The Rite of Spring and The Firebird, Stravinsky was married twice. His first wife was also his childhood sweetheart and first cousin, Katrina Nossenko. They tied the family knot in 1906, when life in Russia was, er, simpler. So simple that Stravinsky wasn't able to copyright his works because Russia was not part of the international agreements to protect intellectual property. This meant he made almost no money off the performances of some of his biggest, most successful pieces, unless he was conducting them. Later in life, after having four children with Katya, Stravinsky would take up a mistress, Vera Sudeykina, who he eventually married after his first wife died.
2. Sergei Rachmaninoff Stravinsky wasn't the only Russian composer to marry his first cousin. Sergei Rachmaninoff actually beat him to the punch by four years, marrying Natalia Satina in 1902. But unlike Stravinsky, who had left the Russian Orthodox Church when he was 18 (he'd later come back to it and compose many religious pieces), Rachmaninoff was devout (well, at least his family was). As you probably know, the church had issues with cousins marrying, and though engaged, Sergei was not allowed to marry his beloved. The result? He fell into depression for a couple years and didn't pen much music at all. But he remained engaged, and, after a lot of squabbling with the priests, and finally permission from none other than the Tsar (don't forget, Rachmaninoff was already pretty famous), the two were allowed to wed and remained married until the composer's death in 1943.
3. Johann Sebastian Bach We all know Bach had many famous sons who were also gifted composers (take Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, for instance). But do you know exactly how many children Bach fathered? Five? Seven? Thirteen? How about TWENTY! The first seven were with his first wife, and second cousin, Maria Barbara Bach, who he married in 1707. Johann was 22 at the time. His first child was born in 1708. While 10 of the 20 children wouldn't survive to adulthood, Bach fathered the additional children, either with his first wife, or his second, Anna Magdalena Wilcke, when he was the following ages: 23, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, and 57 years old!
4. Albert Einstein Obviously Einstein isn't primarily known as a musician, but as most people know, he loved to play the violin, and took pride in his chops, which is why I've included him here. Like some of the others on the list, he had his children with his first wife, Mileva Maric, who he married in 1903. But then he took up a mistress, Elsa Löwenthal, and, 13 years later, asked Mileva for a divorce. (Actually, demanded is more like it.) The result? Mileva spent the next two years in a Swiss psychiatric clinic. Good times. Eventually she agreed to a divorce, but only after Einstein agreed to sign over any future Nobel Prize money. He did, and he married Elsa, his first maternal cousin, his second paternal cousin. Funny thing here is that Elsa wouldn't have had to change her name because she was born an Einstein. But she had taken her first husband's name (Max Löwenthal), and so had to get Einstein back when she married back into the family in 1919.
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Uber, Electric Vehicle Group Partner to Deploy Electric Motorcycles Across Africa in 2022
Posted on 2021-12-29 by SeeAF
Just as in most cities across Africa, motorcycle taxi drivers are in almost every corner of Nairobi. Josephat Mutiso is among the first drivers here to make the switch from fossil fuel to electric motorcycles, thanks to a partnership between Uber and Opibus.
"This is way efficient," he said. "It is even way easier to ride than the other one. You see, this one you don't have so ma"ny controls, you just have the throttle, no clutch. The only thing you are focusing on is just the front brake and the rear brake. That way it gives you even more control of the bike. And it is pretty light, it does not vibrate. So even clients like this one better."
Motorcycle taxis have become increasingly common as public transportation in cities across Africa.
Joyce Msuya, the deputy executive director of UNEP, the U.N. Environmental Program, notes that motorcycle taxis have become increasingly common as public transportation in cities across Africa.
"The number of newly registered motorcycles, commonly used as taxis or boda boda, was estimated in 2018 at 1.5 million and will likely grow to five million by 2030," she said. "Most are inefficient, poorly maintained and heavily polluting. UNEP's study shows that boda boda drivers can more than double their income if they make the switch."
In March, the U.N. Environment Program launched the first electric bikes project in Kenya, creating the momentum for Africa's shift to electric mobility. The partnership between Uber and Opibus seeks to accelerate that shift.
"We are just excited to get as many people exposed to the new technology that we built as possible so they know there is an option," said Alex Pitkin, the chief technology officer at Opibus. "Uber provides, obviously, a lot of boda boda riders, that's our target client. They often don't know how beneficial electric motorcycles can be in terms of money-saving, safety, fuel savings, maintenance savings, you know that kind of thing. And longevity of the product as well, they don't know that."
Across the world, there is a shift toward electric vehicles due to rising pollution and climate-damaging emissions from vehicles.
The African continent has not been left behind in that movement.
"Targeting Africa and African countries is also part of that movement and as Opibus, that is where we are targeting," said Lucy Mugala, an engineer at Opibus. "We want all of us to move together. We all move towards a greener energy, a greener economy. And we can only do that if we all come together and empower and build capacity locally."
Mutiso says he is earning more money now.
"Everything I used to earn and save for the maintenance of the bike," he said. "Right now I'm saving it. So right now, I'm making more."
Experts say that a global move to electric mobility is essential to the future and that drivers like Mutiso will benefit.
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Where is Menudo's Angelo Garcia Now?
Menudo is a boy band with an ever-changing lineup of teenagers that took the world by storm during the 1980s. Originating in Puerto Rico and created by Edgardo Diaz, the group released several albums until 2009. HBO Max's docuseries 'Menudo: Forever Young' peeks behind the curtain through interviews with former Menudo members. The revealing conversations paint a pattern of abuse and mistreatment the boys faced while being a part of Menudo. Angelo Garcia, who was in the group for about three years, also talks about his harrowing experience. So, let's find out more about him then, shall we?
Who is Angelo Garcia?
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Angelo Garcia resolved to audition for Menudo when he saw a TV commercial in Puerto Rico. At the time, Angelo was on vacation with his family. Then only 11-years-old, he joined the boy band in 1988, with the world seemingly in his grasp. However, Angelo quit Menudo almost three years after that. Years later, he shared the disturbing ordeal he had to go through as a child.
Angelo stated that the working conditions and hours were appalling while he was a part of Menudo. Furthermore, he claimed they made the boys work even when they were sick. At one point, Angelo mentioned on the show that he performed even with a severe pain in his abdomen that later turned out to be Appendicitis. According to him, this happened because of the working conditions and the diet he was exposed to at the time.
Many years later, Angelo talked about being sexually abused by a neighbor when he was only 8-years-old. Sadly, the singer said he was molested while he was a member of Menudo as well. Angelo mentioned that a man who was part of the administration would come to his hotel room to play cards and make him drink alcohol. He would pass out, only to wake up naked. On the show, Angelo said that he would have carpet burns on his face and that it had happened several times.
Angelo added, "What I can reveal to you in my case is that Edgardo Diaz did not sexually abuse me; they were friends, people close to him. I am sure that I was not the only one who suffered sexual abuse, and for many years I carried within my spirit and within my soul a sense of guilt. What did I do that caused me to suffer that?" Even after leaving Menudo, he was sexually abused by one of his teachers later on.
Where is Angelo Garcia Today?
Angelo undoubtedly had a troubled childhood that was only compounded by the loss of his father at the age of 15. After that, his mother raised him. Angelo identifies as bisexual and recalled his mother not being so supportive about it when he initially came out to her. He added, "I carried a lot of guilt in my heart for being gay and a lot of fear because of the wrath of God. My mother loved me no matter what, and she always told me that. But she had that fear too. The fear of what society would do to me."
Nevertheless, over time, Angelo's mother came to support her son, and he considers himself lucky to have her. Angelo, a psychology major, put himself through college by working as an exotic dancer in Florida and later in New York. Apart from being a musician, Angelo has previously appeared on Comedy Central skits. Furthermore, he loves spending time in the great outdoors. Angelo currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, continues to record music, and has recently attended the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Q: Implementing luigi dynamic graph configuration I am new to luigi, came across it while designing a pipeline for our ML efforts. Though it wasn't fitted to my particular use case it had so many extra features I decided to make it fit.
Basically what I was looking for was a way to be able to persist a custom built pipeline and thus have its results repeatable and easier to deploy, after reading most of the online tutorials I tried to implement my serialization using the existing luigi.cfg configuration and command line mechanisms and it might have sufficed for the tasks' parameters but it provided no way of serializing the DAG connectivity of my pipeline, so I decided to have a WrapperTask which received a json config file that would then create all the task instances and connect all the input output channels of the luigi tasks (do all the plumbing).
I hereby enclose a small test program for your scrutiny:
import random
import luigi
import time
import os

class TaskNode(luigi.Task):
    i = luigi.IntParameter()  # node ID

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.required = []

    def set_required(self, required=None):
        self.required = required  # set the dependencies
        return self

    def requires(self):
        return self.required

    def output(self):
        return luigi.LocalTarget('{0}{1}.txt'.format(self.__class__.__name__, self.i))

    def run(self):
        with self.output().open('w') as outfile:
            outfile.write('inside {0}{1}\n'.format(self.__class__.__name__, self.i))
        self.process()

    def process(self):
        raise NotImplementedError(self.__class__.__name__ + " must implement this method")

class FastNode(TaskNode):

    def process(self):
        time.sleep(1)

class SlowNode(TaskNode):

    def process(self):
        time.sleep(2)

# This WrapperTask builds all the nodes
class All(luigi.WrapperTask):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        num_nodes = 513

        classes = TaskNode.__subclasses__()
        self.nodes = []
        for i in reversed(range(num_nodes)):
            cls = random.choice(classes)

            dependencies = random.sample(self.nodes, (num_nodes - i) // 35)

            obj = cls(i=i)
            if dependencies:
                obj.set_required(required=dependencies)
            else:
                obj.set_required(required=None)

            # delete existing output causing a build all
            if obj.output().exists():
                obj.output().remove()

            self.nodes.append(obj)

    def requires(self):
        return self.nodes

if __name__ == '__main__':
    luigi.run()

So, basically, as is stated in the question's title, this focuses on the dynamic dependencies and generates a 513 node dependency DAG with p=1/35 connectivity probability, it also defines the All (as in make all) class as a WrapperTask that requires all nodes to be built for it to be considered done (I have a version which only connects it to heads of connected DAG components but I didn't want to over complicate).
Is there a more standard (Luigic) way of implementing this? Especially note the not so pretty complication with the TaskNode init and set_required methods, I only did it this way because receiving parameters in the init method clashes somehow with the way luigi registers parameters. I also tried several other ways but this was basically the most decent one (that worked)
If there isn't a standard way I'd still love to hear any insights you have on the way I plan to go before I finish implementing the framework.

A: I answered a similar question yesterday with a demo. I based that almost entirely off of the example in the docs.. In the docs, assigning dynamic dependencies by yeilding tasks seems like the way they prefer.
luigi.Config and dynamic dependencies can probably give you a pipeline of almost infinite flexibility. They also describe a dummy Task that calls multiple dependency chains here, which could give you even more control.

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Catawba Project Field School
Field School students excavating and mapping.
Have you ever wanted to participate in an archaeological excavation? This course will give you the opportunity to do just that while earning six (6) hours of college credit. This year's Research Laboratories of Archaeology (RLA) field school, taught by Drs. Heather Lapham and Steve Davis, will take place during Summer Session 1 (May 13–June 18, 2020). Excavations will be based at the Spratt's Bottom site, a Colonial-period Catawba Indian town in York County, South Carolina (just south of Charlotte). This field school will continue the RLA's Catawba Project begun in 2001 to understand the emergence and endurance of the modern Catawba Nation.
Map of the RLA's Catawba Project area showing excavated Catawba sites.
Spratt's Bottom
Native peoples resided at Spratt's Bottom during the Coalescent Period (1716–1759) of Catawba history, a time when disparate groups from across the North Carolina Piedmont moved south to settle among the Catawba. By amassing peoples from surrounding regions, the Catawba replenished their population that had been depleted from disease- and warfare-related deaths. Strength in numbers combined with a strategic positioning as allies of Carolina's English government cemented the Catawba's privileged status as guardians of the Colony's northern frontier and brought crucial resources to the nation, including guns and ammunition. In 1759, a smallpox epidemic decimated Catawba communities and their power and influence began to wane as they struggled to remain relevant in a rapidly changing cultural landscape increasingly populated by English settlers. Embracing resilience and creative adaptation, Catawba peoples turned to making and selling pottery, basketry, and other goods to nearby White settlements and later to leasing land to White farmers. They also served briefly as soldiers who fought alongside colonists in the Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Today, people of the Catawba Nation comprise a vibrant and flourishing community centered in their historic homelands in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Previous testing and excavations the Spratt's Bottom site have revealed postholes where houses once stood and storage pits that became a convenient place to dispose of refuse such as broken ceramic pots and food remains (represented by animal bones and charred plant materials). During the 2020 Field School students will recover artifacts and reveal traces of houses and other features that document Native American occupation at Spratt's Bottom during the apex of Catawba strength and influence in the eighteenth century.
Metal artifacts recovered from nearby Charraw Town during the 2011 Field School.
The Field School is open to undergraduate students and anyone with a college degree. Participants must enroll in Anthropology 451 for 6 credit hours. This course fulfills the Experiential Education, Historical Analysis, and World Before 1750 general education requirements and the Archaeology Major/Minor requirements for a field school. There are no formal prerequisites, but potential students must fill out an Application Form by MARCH 15. Enrollment will be limited to about 10-12 students. Applicants will be informed as to whether they have been accepted into the course by April 1. The course will be taught by Drs. Heather Lapham and Steve Davis, with additional instruction from graduate assistants.
Field school students will learn the basic techniques of archaeological excavation, as well as mapping, surveying, photography (including 3D photography), and artifact identification. Although some classroom and laboratory instruction will be given, most of the students' time will be spent actually excavating.
Students who successfully complete the course will be prepared for a variety of future research and employment opportunities, including paid positions on other archaeological projects.
The 2017 Field School and crew at Old Town.
Tuition for undergraduates is estimated (based on last year's amounts) as follows: $1,530 for North Carolina residents ($255 per credit hour), and $3,960 for out-of-state residents ($660 per credit hour). These estimates may change by the time of registration.
Housing arrangements will be made by the instructors, but students are required to pay for their housing in advance of the field school. We plan to stay in a suite-style dormitory on the Winthrop University campus in nearby Rock Hill, South Carolina. Rooms come with a microwave and refrigerator, and there are shared kitchen facilities. You can expect to pay about $780-$1,250 for housing depending upon whether you choose a single or double occupancy room. These costs are comparable to UNC's summer session housing rates. Students must submit payment for their housing by May 1, 2020, via check to the RLA.
You will also need to arrange and cover the costs of all your own food (breakfast, packed lunch for the field, and dinner).
Schedule, Transportation, and Equipment
The Field School will run from May 13 to June 18, 2020 (Summer Session I). Daily transportation to the site, as well as all field equipment, will be provided by the University.
Inquiries, Applications, and Deadlines
Recovering artifacts during the 2017 Field School excavations at Old Town.
Interested in learning more? You can read about the Catawba Project and watch a video about the 2015 Field School at the Wall site in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Also, be sure to check out the RLA's exhibit on Catawba pottery past and present in the lower level of Alumni Building.
Inquiries about the Catawba Project Field School are welcomed, and should be made to Dr. Heather Lapham (Email: hlapham@unc.edu).
Because enrollment is limited, students must apply in advance by filling out an Application Form and obtain permission to register. UNC applicants must arrange for a brief interview; non-UNC applicants should submit at least one letter of reference. In order to be guaranteed full consideration, potential students should apply no later than MARCH 15, 2020.
Visiting students may obtain additional information from the Summer School (Tel: 919-966-4364).


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Publication - Statistics
Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Statistics: Scottish Local Authority Housing Income and Expenditure 1997-98 to 2020-21 (actuals) 2021-22 (estimates)
Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government
Housing and Social Justice Directorate
This annual publication presents statistics on Local Authority housing income and expenditure 2020-21 (actuals) and 2021-22 (estimates) including the balance at the end of the year, stock, rents, management and maintenance, empty properties, rent arrears, capital expenditure and borrowing.
Expenditure on housing management and on repairs and maintenance (charts 5, 6 & 7) (tables 10, 11 & 12)
Local Authority housing stock (chart 1) (table 5)
Housing revenue income and expenditure (charts 2a & 2b) (table 1a)
Expenditure on loan charges (table 1a)
Rents lost due to empty properties (void losses) (charts 8 & 9) (tables 14 & 15)
Movement in the HRA reserves (chart 12) (table 2a, table 3)
Capital debt (table 21, table 1a)
Capital investment (charts 13 & 14) (table 23)
Funding of capital expenditure (chart 15) (table 23)
Tenant Consultation by Councils about HRAs
An Official Statistics publication for Scotland
23. In 2020-21, the 26 Local Authorities with council dwellings spent £2,063 per house on management and maintenance, which is forecast to rise by 9% to £2,254 in 2021-22. As reported at paragraph eleven councils reported that COVID-19 has affected repairs and maintenance.
24. Spending on management and maintenance for 2020-21 ranges from £1,573 per house in Midlothian to £2,692 in East Renfrewshire. Differing accounting practices and differing service provision amongst councils mean that the figures for individual councils may not always be directly comparable and the estimates for management and maintenance expenditure should be treated with caution.
25. Supervision and management costs in 2020-21 were £891 per house and are forecast to increase to £947 per house in 2021-22. As Local Authorities differ in the extent to which central administration and related service costs are included, individual figures may not always be directly comparable.
26. Average annual expenditure on repairs and maintenance was £1,173 per house in 2020-21 and is forecast to rise to £1,308 or 12% per house in 2021-22. Spending on repairs and maintenance in 2020-21 ranges from £681 per house in Perth and Kinross to £1,670 per house in the Shetland Islands.
27. Please note that the HRA repairs and maintenance expenditure referred to in the above paragraphs is separate, and in additional to, the capital investment in council housing stock enhancements referred to elsewhere in this bulletin.
Chart 5: Supervision & managment expenditure per house 1 , Scotland, 1997-98 to 2020-21 1,2,3
Current prices: Scottish Government, Communities Analytical Division - based on Housing Revenue Account return provided by Scottish Local Authorities. Constant prices: ONS Consumer Price All Items Index on which 2015 = 100.
1. Six councils transferred their housing stock to the housing association sector, therefore HRA information is not available for them.
2. Vertical lines indicate a break in comparability following transfer of housing stock as follows:
From 2003-04 transfer of housing stock from Glasgow City, Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders,
From 2006-07 transfer of housing stock from Argyll and Bute and Na h-Eileanan Siar,
From 2007-08 transfer of housing stock from Inverclyde.
3. Figures from 2019-20 may have been impacted on by the COVID-19 Pandemic restrictions. Consideration should be given to the impact of these restrictions when making any comparisons with other years.
Chart 6: Repairs and maintenance expenditure per house 1 , Scotland, 1997-98 to 2020-21 1,2,3
2. Vertical lines indicate breaks in comparability following transfer of housing stock as follows:
Chart 7: Management and maintenance expenditure per house 1 , by Local Authority, 2020-21 2
Current prices: Scottish Government, Communities Analytical Division - based on Housing Revenue Account return provided by Scottish Local Authorities.
Constant prices: ONS Consumer Price All Items Index on which 2015 = 100.
3. Figures may have been impacted on by the COVID-19 Pandemic restrictions. Consideration should be given to the impact of these restrictions when making any comparisons with other years.
Email: chma@gov.scot


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RCMP, firefighters and paramedics were called to Riverbend Road on Saturday morning after a 20-year-old man climbed an electrical tower, suffered a shock, and fell off. (GREG SAKAKI/The News Bulletin)
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20-year-old was being transported to hospital in Victoria
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Nov. 9, 2019 1:57 p.m.
A man suffered life-threatening injuries after being electrocuted and falling from an electrical tower just south of Nanaimo this morning.
RCMP, firefighters and paramedics were called to Riverbend Road in Cassidy at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9.
Police on scene said a 20-year-old climbed the tower, suffered a shock and fell off. He was not an electrical worker and he climbed up for unknown reasons.
Emergency crews were arranging for him to be airlifted to hospital in Victoria.
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У́лица Револю́ции 1905 го́да — одна из основных улиц Улан-Удэ, находится в Железнодорожном районе города. Длина — 3100 метров.

Названа в память о революционных событиях 1905—1906 годов в Верхнеудинске.

География улицы
Улица проходит по северо-восточной стороне Транссибирской магистрали, параллельно ей. Начинается от соединения улиц Хахалова и Трактовой у юго-восточного края станции Улан-Удэ и идёт на северо-запад до соединения с Коллективной улицей и магистральной автодорогой на посёлок Стеклозавод Советского района города вблизи северо-западного края станции Улан-Удэ.

От улицы Революции 1905 года в северо-восточном направлении отходят улицы Московская, Добролюбова, Шульца, Сенчихина. В 450 метрах от своего начала улица транспортной развязкой образует перекрёсток с начальным участком проспекта им. 50-летия Октября у путепровода Транссиба.

История улицы
Улица возникла в конце XIX — начале XX века со строительством Транссибирской магистрали. На улице был построен вокзал станции Верхнеудинск, рядом с ним была возведена железнодорожная церковь.

В 1900 году начала работать железнодорожная больница (здание не сохранилось). В феврале 1933 года в ней после катастрофы самолёта на Байкале лечился лётчик М. В. Водопьянов.

1 июня 1924 года открылся Рабочий сад — современный парк Железнодорожников. В саду была обустроена футбольная площадка, современный стадион «Локомотив», на которой с 1924 года проводился чемпионат города по футболу.

В 1937 году началось строительство нового здания вокзала, так как старый не справлялся с пассажиропотоком, а зал ожидания находился в здании бывшей железнодорожной церкви. Современное здание пассажирского вокзала сдано в эксплуатацию 18 октября 1938 года.

В 1940-е годы улица имела бо́льшую протяжённость и с частью нынешней Трактовой улицы через старый железнодорожный переезд выходила на улицу Куйбышева.

Решением исполкома Улан-Удэнского горсовета депутатов трудящихся № 23 от 12 декабря 1955 года улица была переименована в улицу Революции 1905 года.

В 1966 году ленинградский институт Гипрогор разработал проект планировки и застройки города Улан-Удэ (архитектор Л. Н. Путерман). В ходе реализации проекта, в 1970-е годы улица Революции 1905 года получила отчётливое оформление, как крупная транспортная магистраль.

14 сентября 2004 года началось строительство Свято-Никольской железнодорожной церкви. Церковь во имя Николая Чудотворца была освящена в августе 2006 года.

Здания и объекты
На улице расположены здания, связанные со станцией Улан-Удэ:

 Железнодорожный вокзал станции Улан-Удэ. Ул. Революции 1905 года, 35.
 Линейный отдел МВД на транспорте. Ул. Революции 1905 года, 49.
 Локомотивное депо станции Улан-Удэ. Ул. Революции 1905 года, 73.
 Детский сад НДОУ ОАО РЖД № 232. Ул. Революции 1905 года, 32п
 Железнодорожная поликлиника. Ул. Революции 1905 года, 36, 36а.
 Региональный центр связи (Железнодорожная АТС). Ул. Революции 1905 года, 48.
 Управление Улан-Удэнского региона ВСЖД. Ул. Революции 1905 года, 54.
 Востсибтранскомбанк. Ул. Революции 1905 года, 54а.
 Православная церковь Николая Чудотворца РПЦ (Железнодорожная церковь). Ул. Революции 1905 года, 56а.
Также на улице расположены:
 Министерство природных ресурсов и экологии Республики Бурятия. ул. Революции 1905 года, 11а.
 Республиканская служба по охране, контролю и регулированию использования объектов животного мира, отнесенных к объектам охоты, контролю и надзору в сфере природопользования. ул. Революции 1905 года, 11а.
 Министерство по развитию транспорта, энергетики и дорожного хозяйства Республики Бурятия. ул. Революции 1905 года, 11а.
 ГКУ "Управление региональных автомобильных дорог Республики Бурятия". ул. Революции 1905 года, 11а.
 Средняя общеобразовательная школа № 26. ул. Революции 1905 года, 100.

Технические памятники и музеи

 Музей локомотивного депо станции Улан-Удэ. Ул. Революции 1905 года, 73.
 Паровоз Л-2182 — построен на Коломенском заводе в 1953 году. Установлен в 2009 году перед зданием Улан-Удэнского регионального центра связи. Ул. Революции, 45.
 Электровоз ВЛ-60К-753. Там же.
 Паровоз Су 205-91 — установлен в 1987 году на главной платформе железнодорожного вокзала Улан-Удэ. Ул. Революции 1905 года, 35.

Объекты культурного наследия
На улице находятся памятники истории:
 Памятник красногвардейцам-железнодорожникам — установлен в 1963 году в память павшим за Советскую власть в борьбе против интервентов и белогвардейцев на станции Верхнеудинск в 1918—1920 годах. Архитектор С. П. Портнягин. Перед зданием по ул. Революции 1905 года, 45 у памятников-локомотивов.
 Памятник работникам локомотивного депо, павшим в Великой Отечественной войне. Установлен в 1972 году в сквере напротив локомотивного депо. Ул. Революции 1905 года, 73.
 Здание по адресу ул. Революции 1905 года, 56. Мемориальная доска о том, что здесь в 1905 году находился верхнеудинский стачечный комитет и штаб рабочей боевой дружины.
 Здание старого паровозного депо, которое в годы трёх русских революций являлось местом активных революционных выступлений трудящихся и населения города Верхнеудинска.

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Natural selection still at work in humans
by University of Queensland
Professor Jian Yang. Credit: University of Queensland
Evolution has shaped the human race, with University of Queensland researchers finding signatures of natural selection in the genome that influence traits associated with fertility and heart function.
A team, led by Professor Jian Yang and Dr. Jian Zeng from UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Queensland Brain Institute , developed a statistical method to examine the effect of DNA mutations, or variants, on genetic architecture.
"In natural selection, or 'survival of the fittest', characteristics that improve survival are more likely to be passed on to the next generation," Professor Yang said.
"The opposite also occurs, when DNA mutations with a detrimental effect on fitness are less likely to be passed on, by a process called negative selection.
Professor Yang said the team found evidence of negative selection on DNA variants associated with a number of traits.
"Among the strongest associations was with traits related to cardiovascular function, such as waist-to-hip ratio, with excess fat around the waist thought to increase the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes," he said.
Dr. Zeng said the most significant negative selection of DNA mutations was related to reproductive function, such as age at menopause.
"We found genetic variants associated with fertility seem to have undergone the strongest selection compared to those associated with other traits, likely because of the strong correlation between fertility and genetic fitness," Dr. Zeng said.
"Negative selection prevents 'bad' mutations from spreading through the population, meaning that common DNA variants are likely to have small or no effect on traits.
"This study will help us better understand the genetic basis of complex traits and inform the design of future experiments in complex traits and medical genomics."
The researchers used genetic samples from 126,545 unrelated individuals of European ancestry in the UK Biobank.
The research was published in Nature Genetics.
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More information: Jian Zeng et al. Signatures of negative selection in the genetic architecture of human complex traits, Nature Genetics (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0101-4
Journal information: Nature Genetics
Provided by University of Queensland
Citation: Natural selection still at work in humans (2018, April 18) retrieved 16 July 2019 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-04-natural-humans.html
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Paul Verhoeven's "Benedetta" weaves luridity in with heavy, impenetrable narratives to create something with a surprising amount of emotional heft.
By Hunter Heilman on December 3, 2021 • ( 0 )
This is absolutely a safe space to admit that Paul Verhoeven is one of the most well-rounded, self-aware filmmakers to ever live. We're all thinking it, so someone might as well say it. His filmography can sometimes read like a list of things Bill Hader's Stefon would read as parts of New York's hottest new club, but that's the somewhat smarmy beauty of it all. Verhoeven, while never actively seeking to be a purveyor of bad taste, knows how to take something lurid and turn it into a work of art, while never losing that wild side that makes experiencing each of his films a truly unique experience every time. After taking a 10-year break from filmmaking since his Dutch-language WWII drama Black Book, Verhoeven focused his comeback efforts on taking on the French film industry, a place where Verhoeven's bawdiness isn't just accepted, it's downright celebrated. With 2016's Elle, Verhoeven not only created his best film to date, but directed legendary actress Isabelle Huppert into giving her best performance to date, which, after her career, is a truly impressive feat. Now, looking to step back from the more straightforward, if still on-brand, feeling of Elle, Verhoeven's Benedetta comes into existence as both a testament to the evolution of the Dutch filmmaker as an artist, but also reminding audiences just who the hell he is.
It's a religious experience.
Center: Virginie Efira as Benedetta in BENEDETTA. Photo courtesy of AMC Networks.
In 17th Century Tuscany (despite everyone in the film speaking French), a pious little girl joins a convent of her own volition when her parents notice a deep, unshakable faith within her. The little girl grows into the dedicated Sister Benedetta (Virginie Efira) under the tutelage of Mother Abbess Felicita (Charlotte Rampling). Upon the arrival of the destitute Bartolomea (Daphné Patakia) who joins the convent to escape her abusive father, Benedetta begins to experience vivid visions of Jesus, and signs of stigmata. Her relationship with Bartolomea grows more intimate as her visions become more vivid, Benedetta must grapple with the power that comes with her unique abilities, as well as her controversial relationship to the outsider Bartolomea.
To say Benedetta isn't for everyone is selling it a bit short. The mixture of sapphic eroticism, religious imagery (bordering on blasphemy at times, but that's what makes it fun), visions of violence, and general insanity all around, Verhoeven proves within moments of the film's start that he and only he can approach this material with such an unrestrained hand. So many films of late have taken a softer approach to more sensitive material, opting for audience comfort over raw emotion, but to see a filmmaker so notable for not doing that in the throes of the '80s and '90s continue to operate with such fearlessness is refreshing and jarring in the best way.
Virginie Efira as Benedetta in BENEDETTA. Photo courtesy of AMC Networks.
Efira, who also starred as a supporting role in Verhoeven's Elle, takes the extra screen time offered with this role and runs with it to create a character that is both sympathetic and inherently detestable all at once. Much like the demented magnetism that Sharon Stone's Catherine Trammel in Verhoeven's Basic Instinct…or Sharon Stone's Lori in Verhoeven's Total Recall…and now that I think about it…needless to say Verhoeven brings out the same femme fatale (albeit with much more religious benevolence) that he brought out with Stone so many years ago. In true Verhoeven fashion, this taps into the campier, gaudier side of Verhoeven's directorial style, and for a film that any other burgeoning filmmaker would operate on with a scalpel, Verhoeven goes in with a chainsaw. Unlike other films of late which attempted to tap into the vein of camp (*cough*House of Gucci*cough*), Benedetta feels like a project where everyone involved knew exactly how Verhoeven wanted it to be played, and thus it feels like a much more cohesive experience as a whole.
But Benedetta doesn't solely exist to titillate and shock (it does certainly do that), but it also works wonders as an indictment of religious hypocrisy, how arbitrary views are enforced with such brutal barbarism that contradicts the same platitudes that make up the religion as a whole, with those in power looking to hold onto said power no matter how many morals they have to betray in the name of righteousness. Parallel to that with each day that passes, with each outcry of disapproval from religious camps in regards to the film, I'm finding the actual message of the film to only be proven further by an inability to approach the film as anything but blasphemous. It feels as if Verhoeven and IFC Films are spending this entire press tour of controversy looking into the camera like they're on The Office, and I think that's beautiful.
Actor Virginie Efira and director Paul Verhoeven on the set of BENEDETTA. Photo courtesy of AMC Networks.
Benedetta is a lot, but it's not trying to pretend like it's trying to be anything but a lot. In fact, it's a metric ton of sex, violence, religious blasphemy, camp, and so on. Verhoeven is a filmmaker that knows exactly how to weave luridity in with heavy, sometimes impenetrable (pun intended) narratives to create something that, while on paper sounding lewd for the sake of it, justifies its existence with a surprising amount of emotional heft. Benedetta certainly feels more like a return to the salacious form of filmmaking we've grown to love him for, while also embracing much of the lessons learned on the much more grounded Elle. It feels like Verhoeven in his most complete form, and while that means polarizing views of the film are coming, it left me a happy, shocked, sometimes a little uncomfortable, boy.
In select theaters December 3rd, 2021.
Available on VOD December 21st, 2021.
For more information, head to the official Benedetta website.
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Designing Mobile Games
By Rita Nemtsov
Games hold the ability to take our minds off daily problems and to create a fantasy world where we can relax and drift between reality and imagination. When people play games, they live a particular experience, and this is what game designers are interested in – in creating not only an entertaining but also a meaningful experience that players would want to repeat.
Game designers bring life to games by implementing creative ideas together with an organized set of rules into a final product, which is the game itself. Similar to a good novel or a movie plot, games have many different elements and parts that have to work well together to keep the structure balanced. Making games is a creative process which involves constant decision making that ultimately defines the player's gaming experience.
Here at Ilyon, we have a talented and creative team of Product and Game Designers who continuously work on new and exciting games for our users. They cleared some time from their busy schedule (working on exciting new projects of course) to discuss certain aspects of the rich and diverse world of Game Design. Guy Zaidenband (Product Manager at Ilyon) told me all about the psychology behind Game Design and Avi Kaisermann (Head of Game Design at Ilyon), discussed the core elements of Game Design and about how those rules apply when it comes to the mobile world.
So What is Game Design?
When we talk about game design, the first thing that comes to mind is the visual appearance of the game. When in fact, game design is the idea behind a game, it's about figuring out how the game is constructed regarding the rules and the content. Each game has its own "recipe," outlining all the core elements you must take into account when working on a game; storyline, mechanics, game economy, monetization, psychology, rewards, look and feel, etc. Considering these factors, according to Kaisermann, a game designer's main concern is to keep the game balanced by defining every aspect of it. "The way we approach balancing the complexity of levels in our games is a mixture of learning our player's behavior through BI reports and testing new gameplay elements," Kaisermann explains.
A game designer has to see the "big picture." Their primary focus is to build the overall structure of the game and to ensure that all the different aspects of the game connect. Their goal is to realize how to take all the various features, boosters, challenges, and events, and combine them to enrich players' experience, and how to develop levels with a logical, natural flow that make sense to players without them having to think about it.
When developing a game's concept and gameplay, the game designer always balances their audience's motivations with innovation. New features, levels, and boosters are pointless if players won't enjoy using them. "Usually, we will try different level layouts and combinations of old and new gameplay elements to see how our players react. We then follow our BI reports thoroughly to see in what way the update changed their behavior," Kaisermann clarifies. "For example, we can test the many effects new items have on a level and compare the overall gratification and performance users get from interacting with them before and after having added the new items."
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The Psychology Behind Game Design
When you work on a game, you have to think about all the little details that ultimately shape the player's gaming experience. Players build a particular relationship with the game based on an emotional connection. Zaidenband points out that even the smallest detail as a likable character or a catchy music tune can capture the heart of the player. If the game gives players something they can relate to, it enhances the chances that they will keep playing it.
The role of a product manager is to examine players' behavior and to understand what motivates them, and how players interact with the game rules. "As a Product Manager, I can observe different groups of users (as paying vs. non-paying), measure their progress, daily engagement and amount of coins spent, and adjust the game accordingly so it will meet the needs of each group," Zaidenband explains. We research our users according to a certain goal we have set or according to similar attributes. For example, we define a specific goal we want to reach as increasing the number of our games a user plays each day and then start our research. If we are looking to find a group of users who for instance play 10 games a day, the next step will be to gather all the common attributes of this group, such as how many times they play per day and whether or not they conduct in-game purchases. Once we have established the common characteristics of each group of users, we think of ways to improve their experience and to increase revenues.
One of the fundamental principles of game design is that the more specific the game rules are, the better chances that users will try to find ways to get around those rules. However, if a game has no rules, users will create their patterns like using only a specific booster to complete levels just because it proved helpful in defeating prior challenges (for example, in some of our Bubble games, we found our users prefer the Fireball). Mostly, each player creates his psychological patterns, and each one is experiencing the game differently. Grouping similar user behaviors help us to slowly and carefully uncover their patterns.
Game Design in the Mobile World
Video games often revolve around exploring fantasy worlds with a unique storyline, characters, and rules, and as such, they take players' time, energy and investment. Playing a video game is more likely to be a decision that you make, something you plan and anticipate. However, it is not the case when it comes to mobile games.
People play mobile games when they are looking for some fun and casual activity to do to pass the time, and mobile games offer precisely that immediate experience.
Mobile games are a whole new area for game designers. Smartphones have become a commodity and the touchscreen technology wholly altered the gaming experience. You play those games on the go- when you have an extra few minutes while waiting for a bus or at a doctor's office. Besides, we have to remember that mobile users make decisions very fast. If they like the game, they will continue playing and if not they will delete it and move on to the next one.
Some users are looking for challenges, and some users are looking for entertainment, some players like to complete levels and move on, and some want to challenge themselves. So how does a game designer, baring all these variables in mind, can catch the attention of the mobile user? Kaisermann and Zaidenband both agree that the primary goal is to figure out how to maximize user's' gaming experience- to keep users challenged and engaged with new content, in a short amount of time and to meet the needs of the different types of players.
Their advice for beginner game designers is to do your research and always stay updated with the latest trends, continually thinking about new ideas and elements to add to the game that will encourage the most interest and engagement with the game. Most importantly, remember to monitor these ideas once implemented and to examine the effects of the changes through player behavior or feedback.
And there is something to look forward to in Ilyon's near future. We have a great lineup of new exciting games and special projects that will keep you entertained so stay tuned!
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Gone Girl: The Movie looks like it has its very first castmember. Ben Affleck is currently in talks to take on the lead role of Nick Dunne in Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel, according to Deadline.
Fox took on the movie adaptation last July in a rumoured seven-figure deal and they already have Reese Witherspoon on board to produce the movie. Those worried about how close to the book the film will be needn't worry, either – as author Gillian Flynn has already written a first draft of the screenplay and is rewriting it as we speak with director David Fincher. How exciting?!
Gone Girl follows the story of Nick and Amy Dunne who relocate their lives from New York City to a small town in Missouri where Nick is from. Shortly after their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy goes missing, and her husband Nick becomes a prime suspect in the police case. The story then unfolds from both Nick and Amy's points of view, leading the reader to question whether Nick really had it in him to kill his own wife.
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